Family relationships practice/program profiles
The Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse (AFRC) is developing a collection of profiles on family relationships practices. By providing this collection the Clearinghouse aims to improve understanding of family and relationship issues and responses to these issues.
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Practice Profiles |
| 426 Club [submitted August 2007] |
The 426 Club is a support group for children aged between 8-12 yrs who have experienced domestic violence & are displaying behavioural problems at home, school or in the community. |
| Bfriend Project [submitted August 2007, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
Bfriend aims to support people who are newly identifying as same sex attracted (ssa), lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender/transsexual or who are exploring their sexual identity outside the heterosexual or questioning their gender identity. |
| Centacare CFCS Men & Family Relationship Program (submitted June 2010) |
A program offering men a number of different avenues of support, with services across the Gold Coast community. |
| Chinese Learning Discovery Program [submitted February 2008] |
A program run weekly for kindergarten children whose aim is to introduce Chinese culture to the staff and children at a children's centre and to the wider community. |
| Cultural X Change Project [submitted February 2008, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
A project to improve the relationships with specific target communities identified as being underrepresented in their use of Mensline. The primary target groups identified were Indigenous Men, Arabic Men, Vietnamese Men and Young Men aged 18-25. |
| Explicit Affective Practice [submitted February 2008, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
A whole of agency approach for staff and practice delivery to clients, based on the World Wide 'Restorative Justice Movement'. |
| Family Group Conferencing [submitted November 2008, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
Family Group Conferencing enables families, including children and young people, to participate fully in decision making about arrangements for children who have been or are considered to be at risk of abuse and neglect. |
| Families of Offenders Resource Kit (FORK) [submitted August 2007, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
FORK focuses on early intervention for "at risk" children of prisoners and their families. |
| Family Transitions Triple P - Positive Parenting after Divorce [submitted August 2007] |
A 12 week group program aimed at preventing negative outcomes for children following their parent’s divorce. |
| Living with your Teen [submitted August 2007, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
Workshops which aim to provide an exchange of ideas and present researched ideas on aspects of parents and teenagers. |
| Moving Forward Parenting Orders Program [submitted November 2008, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
A program for post separation families where conflict is high around parenting orders and/or arrangements. |
| Parenting and Family Support Centre (submitted April 2009, updated 8 Sept 2009) |
A multi-level family intervention program. |
| The Preschooler Personality program (submitted April 2009, updated 8 Sept 2009) |
A program with explored and addressed the child’s personality type when looking at changing problem behaviour. |
| RELATEWELL Let’s Make It Work Let’s Keep It Alive The Art Of Relating (submitted June 2010) |
Let’s Make It Work: A course for couples planning to marry or living together. Let’s Keep It Alive: A course for couples who are married / in a committed relationship. The Art Of Relating: For people not in a relationship. |
| Strength To Strength (STS) [submitted February 2008, updated 8 Sept 2009] |
A family relationships program for humanitarian entrant families living in Western metropolitan Sydney. STS assists humanitarian entrant families around relationships through a variety of interventions ranging from workshops to intensive family therapy. |
Copyright statement for family relationships practice profilesCopyright of individual entries in the practice profiles collection is held by the organisations that have provided the information. Items may be printed or downloaded for personal use only for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under copyright legislation. For any further dissemination written permission must be obtained from the organisation. The Promising Practice Database is intended as a resource to inform practitioners and policy workers about current and past initiatives. The AFRC does not independently evaluate programs. Our process of assessment involves ensuring that the program/resource is consistent with the stated criteria. The complete practice profiles collection is copyright to the Commonwealth of Australia. If you wish to reproduce parts of the collection or the complete collection please read the requirements in the AIFS copyright statement. |
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Program Spotlights |
| Helping families with complex needs (PDF 68 KB) | We highlight the benefits and challenges of linking two programs to reach out to and help migrant families. (Resources for Adolescents and Parents Program and the Strength to Strength Western Sydney Humanitarian Entrants Program) |
| Positive Parenting Telephone Service (PDF 318 KB) | The Positive Parenting Telephone Service program provides clients who are unable or reluctant to participate in on-site group parenting education with access to an established, evidence-based parenting program. |
| Getting Tough or Getting Together (PDF 291 KB) | A group of professionals in the Wodonga region in north east Victoria have formed a partnership to deliver a unique model of improving young peoples' engagement with school and the community and providing support services to their families. |
| Hey Dad! For Indigenous Dads, Uncles and Pops | Hey Dad! For Indigenous Dads, Uncles and Pops has been written specifically to help Indigenous men to engage with and understand their children. It also provides a conduit to other family services and contributes to the building of community capacity in those regions in which it is adopted. |
| Tuning in to Kids: Emotionally intelligent parenting | Tuning in to Kids is an evidence-based, emotion-focused program that helps parents support the development of emotional competence in their children. The program brings together parent education techniques and child clinical psychology. |
| P5 (Participatory Program Promoting Pleasurable Parenting | The P5 Program focuses on supporting parents in dealing with family issues, with the broad objective of providing greater depth, connection and meaning to all family and social relationships, and promoting a prosocial, universal skill-based approach to parenting. |
| Family Life – Creating Capable Communities | The Creating Capable Communities Program uses a holistic and integrated approach to build the resourcefulness and capacities of residents to create a safe, healthy and supportive community. |
| Anglicare WA (agency spotlight) | Programs at Anglicare WA span the continuum of FRSP services, including relationship education and skills training, counselling, men’s programs and post-separation services, Children’s Contact services, Parenting Orders Programs and two Family Relationship Centres. |
| The Partnership Program | The Partnership program is run by a small group of volunteers in WA, and offers marriage preparation course and marriage mentors for individual couples. Graduates often provide active support and assistance to other married couples as role models, mentors and facilitators/educators. |
| Well Ways and Well Ways Duo | Well Ways and Well Ways Duo both aim to help families and friends of a person with a mental illness care for themselves, other family members and the person with the mental illness - Well Ways for family and friends of people with a mental illness and Well Ways Duo for those caring for someone with a dual diagnosis. |
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